The most trusted and comprehensive guide to the healthcare system—fully updated with the latest changes and trends A Doody's Core Title for 2021! Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach provides everything you need to master the healthcare system’s nuances and complexities, work more effectively with other members of healthcare teams, and identify areas in need of change. Written by practicing primary care physicians who are experts in healthcare policy, this peerless guide covers the entire scope of the U.S. healthcare system and draws on lessons from systems in other nations. The authors carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make vital health policy issues interesting and understandable. Whether you’re a student, medical practitioner, or public policy professional, you will come away with a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about our healthcare system, its biggest challenges, and the most effective ways of making it better for everyone. Features • Covers every aspect of healthcare, including finance, organization, and reimbursement • Delivers updated information on the Affordable Care Act, Accountable Care Organizations, and system consolidation • Provides new insights into the role of social determinants in patient health • Clinical vignettes highlight key policy issues and clarify difficult concepts
Understand how the healthcare system works – and how you can succeed in it Covers the 2010 Affordable Care Act The most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available, Understanding Health Policy provides everything students and ...
This important new text provides a clear, even-handed guide to a complicated and often confusing subject - the US health care system. Fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance,...
Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy.
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The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care.
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THE 1980S: THE REVOLT OF THE PURCHASERS In 1989, Ryan Neighbor, Jerry Neighbor's brother, became concerned when he noticed blood in his stools; he decided to see a physician. Six months earlier, his company had increased the annual ...
Welsh Office (1998) Strategic Framework: Better health, better Wales, Cardiff: Welsh Office. ... WHO Regional Office for Europe (2006b) Framework for Alcohol Policy in the WHO European Region, Copenhagen: WHO Europe.
Whether a measure is subjective (based on individual awareness or experience) or objective (existing and ... about health-related quality of life and would prefer to use only data derived from medical record reviews for their analyses.